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Astronomy: The Science of the Heavenly Bodies

Todd, David P.

Read by LibriVox volunteers · LibriVox · public domain · Archive.org recording

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Chapters

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00 - Preface (4:05)
01 - Astronomy a Living Science (17:11)
02 - The First Astronomers (6:41)
03 - Pyramid, Tomb, and Temple (8:12)
04 - Origin of Greek Astronomy (5:11)
05 - Measuring the Earth—Eratosthenes (5:48)
06 - Ptolemy and His Great Book (7:38)
07 - Astronomy of the Middle Ages (9:11)
08 - Copernicus and the New Era (5:48)
09 - Tycho, the Great Observer (6:32)
10 - Kepler, the Great Calculator (10:12)
11 - Galileo, the Great Experimenter (8:08)
12 - After the Great Masters (8:03)
13 - Newton and Motion (7:53)
14 - Newton and Gravitation (12:21)
15 - After Newton (18:13)
16 - Halley and His Comet (13:28)
17 - Bradley and Aberration (6:41)
18 - The Telescope (16:43)
19 - Reflectors—Mirror Telescopes (15:42)
20 - The Story of the Spectroscope (27:17)
21 - The Story of Astronomical Photography (23:44)
22 - Mountain Observatories (26:31)
23 - The Program of a Great Observatory (20:03)
24 - Our Solar System (5:50)
25 - The Sun and Observing It (21:40)
26 - Sun Spots and Prominences (35:29)
27 - The Inner Planets (7:22)
28 - The Moon and Her Surface (23:12)
29 - Eclipses of the Moon (4:48)
30 - Total Eclipses of the Sun (20:23)
31 - The Solar Corona (13:29)
32 - The Ruddy Planet (22:47)
33 - The Canals of Mars (12:04)
34 - Life in Other Worlds (23:51)
35 - The Little Planets (11:22)
36 - The Giant Planet (7:59)
37 - The Ringed Planet (6:20)
38 - The Farthest Planets (6:30)
39 - The Trans-Neptunian Planet (4:34)
40 - Comets—the Hairy Stars (12:45)
41 - Where Do Comets Come From? (6:36)
42 - Meteors and Shooting Stars (13:23)
43 - Meteorites (5:35)
44 - The Universe of Stars (9:44)
45 - Star Charts and Catalogues (6:48)
46 - The Sun's Motion Toward Lyra (6:25)
47 - Stars and Their Spectral Type (8:38)
48 - Star Distances (14:20)
49 - The Nearest Stars (2:37)
50 - Actual Dimensions of the Stars (6:14)
51 - The Variable Stars (12:09)
52 - The Novæ, or New Stars (5:38)
53 - The Double Stars (2:51)
54 - The Star Clusters (9:21)
55 - Moving Clusters (6:57)
56 - The Two Star Streams (8:47)
57 - The Galaxy or Milky Way (16:57)
58 - Star Clouds and Nebulæ (8:46)
59 - The Spiral Nebulæ (11:04)
60 - Cosmogony (22:39)
61 - Cosmogony in Transition (10:11)

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